Side note: the way they speak is a bit... old fashioned and interesting. I'm trying to figure out what it is that causes that impression. I want to say it's the grammar and the way the sentences are structured. (reminds me of shakespeare...) Although the diction may play a hand in the effect.

"In chains, here, with no possibility of escape, is to make a mockery of the notion of requited love!"and from the previous page, "You depart from me for so long. You fight me. And now you wish I wouldn't leave?" (as opposed to "You leave me alone for so long. You fight me. And now you don't want me to leave?")

In Life's name, and for Life's sake, I assert that I will employ the Art which is its gift in Life's service alone. I will guard growth and ease pain. I will fight to preserve what grows and lives well in its own way; Nor will I change any creature unless its growth and Life, or that of the system of which it is part, are threatened. To these ends, in the practice of my Art, I will ever put aside fear for courage, and death for Life, when it is fitting to do so- looking always toward the Heart of Time, where all our sundered times are one, and all our myriad worlds lie whole, in that from which they proceeded...